Episode 2: Jouer le Hacky!!

Fourth week as a missionary!! It's going great! I really don't know how to introduce these so I'll just roll right into some stories and things hahah



On Monday night me and the other sisters/sœurs met this tahitian sister who is going to serve in Montreal. She has the most wonderful accent and she is just the nicest person ever. She was telling us all about Tahiti; she specifically thanked us for "going to serve her people" (her words), which just made me so excited to go and do her proud hahah. She told us that it's incredibly incredibly important for us to be learning tahitian alongside french because the locals will respect you and trust you 1000x more. She said that if you speak tahitian, even just a tiny bit of broken, conversational tahitian, that the people will immediately be interested in you. Most people who go to the islands don't bother to learn any, and we as missionaries aren't even planning on staying very long, so why would we want to learn the language?? Aaaaand THATS when we tell them all about why we're there and hopefully get to help them out and share a message with them if possible. Anyways it was just so cool hearing what she had to say about the importance of learning tahitian to the people of Tahiti. 



Speaking of which, it was my birthday last week (wooo 20, double digits!!!) and we asked our teacher how to sing happy birthday in tahitien, which is basically "Mahana oeoe ia oe" (pronounced ma-haa-nah oh-ay-oh-ay ee-aah oh-ayyyyy to the tune of happy birthday) and it's now perpetually in my head



As per the title, we've been playing a lot of hacky sack. I'm not super sure how that's spelt so if that's wrong... whoops. But anyways the elders are basically obsessed with it so naturally we have to play too. It's actually way fun even if I'm pretty garbage at it hahaha. But the elders gave us our own to practice with so my goal for the end of MTC is to.. not be garbage at it. That feels achievable.



We're like fully immersed into French now. Last week the way our classes were was like, our teacher spoke 90% french and encouraged us to speak as much as we could, but we'd still speak a lot of English. THIS week we started a fun little tally system, where we have five tally marks on the board each 3 hour class, and every time we speak English we lose a tally. I'm not fully sure what happens if we lose all of them but something tells me we'd have to do wall sits. Luckily we're pretty good about speaking only french. I feel like my language comprehension and skills have tripled in the past week because of it honestly. All of my notes are written in French now, I can understand pretty much everything the teachers are telling us (minus a few words), and every singly day the language makes more and more sense. I genuinely love speaking and learning french so much, and I'm just so excited to be able to speak to people in Tahiti 



I will now list an assortment of other things that have happened this week:

- One of our teachers who served in Tahiti taught us the "tahitian handshake". It's probably my new favorite thing, it is the coolest thing ever

- we played beach volleyball (volley du plage) on Wednesday and it was super fun. A Japanese district randomly just joined us and they were awesome. I may have only touched the ball a grand total of like 6 times but I still had a blast

- one of the hacky games we've played is called "MORT" aka "death" or "die" in French lol. It's kinda like HORSE. The haacky needs to be hit four times by different people in a succession, and after each hit to/by a different person, you yell out one of the letters, depending on how many people have it it. So for the first hit you yell M, second O, third R, and fourth T. and oh boy, you better either catch the ball or start running when it hits T. Whoever catches the ball on T gets to hurl it at someone and get them out. Now personally I've never caught the ball but I'm REALLY good at just standing there looking so dumb when it is caught



Anyways this is a long email, désolée. Have some pictures! I hope you all have a great week!!



Bonne chance,

Sœur Snuggs



Les Photos

1.) "The Tree of Life"

2.) Early morning temple view

3.) Selfie!!!!!!!

4.) Zoom selfie!!!!!!

5.) Trying to conjugate "bussin" 

6.) The blurriest picture ever






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